Because doing it the right way, or even remotely close to the right way would be no fun I present to you, a work in progress.
I know what you're thinking. -->
Yes, that my friends, is a guitar body cut from two 3/4" pieces of MDF glued together with a neck slapped on and strung up. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Now you're thinking --> leads to leads to
I wanted to make sure that I wasn't buying $60 worth of wood and then a crap load of tools and hating it so I did the exact opposite. $4 worth of glued sawdust, a $6 saw, a $9 hammer, a $7 chisel, some free sandpaper, and a borrowed drill. I rule!
Everyone else can now feel better about their works in progress.
Blog documenting the progress, although only started fairly recently, is linked in my signature. Feel free to say whatever nasty things you can think of. I've said 'em to myself a couple of times already.